17:19
RUSSIAN FIGHTING RECOGNIZED IN RUSSIA AS A TYPE OF SPORT
At the Russian State Committee for Sports, the third session of the commission for recognising new types of sport has recognised Russian fighting as a type of sport. More details...

16:55
RUSSIAN BIKER TO TOUR AMERICA
Famous Vladivostok traveler Igor Sokolov from the Far East has set out on a biking tour about America. "Sinus", his nickname among bikers, has arrived in the US northernmost state of Alaska by the Vladivostok-Seoul-Anchorage air flight to race across the continent to the south of Panama by Japan's Honda-Magna. More details...

16:31
WORLD'S NORTHERNMOST SAILING REGATTA KICKS OFF AT SEVEROMORSK
The world's northernmost sailing regatta "Arctic Cruise" kicked off on Wednesday at Severomorsk (the Murmansk region in the north of European Russia), said the Murmansk regional sailing sport federation. More details...

14:03
INTERNATIONAL SPORTIVE BALL DANCE TOURNAMENT STARTS IN VLADIVOSTOK
The Golden Horn, a traditional international tournament of sportive ball dances, opened in Vladivostok (the Primorye centre) on Thursday. More details...

15:47
LITHUANIA HOSTS EUROPEAN STUNT FLYING CHAMPIONSHIP
The Russian national team will, as usual, include people from the Sukhoi aircraft design bureau. The Sukhoi design bureau's delegation is headed by deputy general designer Stanislav Rubanov, who also supervises the Sukhoi Aerobatic Planes program. Moreover, Rubanov is a merited designer of Russia. More details...

19:21
RUSSIA COUNTS GREATLY ON NATIONAL TEAM'S CHIEF COACH VALERY GAZAYEV
The Russian government hopes that TsSKA coach Valery Gazayev, who was appointed the chief coach of the Russian national team on Monday, "will be more successful than his predecessor /recently resigned Oleg Romantsev/ and the Russian team will show better results on international fields." This statement was made by Alexei Gorshkov, the head of the Governmental Information Department. More details...

16:02
RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL GRANTS FOR OLYMPIC GAMES ATHLETES INSTITUTED
Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree on "Grants for athletes - participants of Olympic Games and their coaches", the Kremlin press-service disclosed to a RIA Novosti correspondent. More details...

12:44
YOUNG RUSSIANS TRIUMPH IN WIMBLEDON TENNIS TOURNAMENT FOR GIRLS
The final of this part of the competition was "purely Russian". Maria Sharapova and Vera Doushevina, seeded seventh and eighth respectively, met in it. Doushevina gained the upper hand in three sets (4-6, 6-1, 6-2). More details...

18:50
IOC DEMANDS THAT LARISSA LAZUTINA 'PROVE SHE HAD THE RIGHT TO TAKE PART IN OLYMPIC GAMES'
Larissa Lazutina's case could be suspended. This was announced on Tuesday by the Russian skier's lawyer Anatoli Kucherena. He said that on July 17 and 18 at the sports tribunal in Lausanne, Lazutina's appeal against her disqualification from the 2000 Winter Olympics will be examined. More details...

17:39
IOC TRIES TO BLOCK APPEAL FROM RUSSIAN WOMEN SKIERS
The International Olympic Committee /IOC/ is trying to block examination of an appeal from Russian skiers Larisa Lazutina and Olga Danilova in the arbitration court in Lausanne, their defence lawyer said at a news conference in Moscow. More details...

19:56
RUSSIAN REACHES WIMBLEDON QUARTERFINAL
Russian tennis player Yelena Likhovtseva has reached the quarterfinal at Wimbledon. She coolly dispatched experienced Bulgarian Magdalena Maleeva 6:3, 6:4 to reach the next round. More details...

18:54
ST. PETERSBURG-ASTRAKHAN-NOVOROSSIISK WORLD CUP OFF-ROAD TO TAKE OFF AUGUST 1
World Cup all-terrain automobile and motorcycle Master Rally 2002 will be, for the first time, held fully in Russia, following from St. Petersburg to Novorossiisk via Astrakhan. According to the organising committee, the reconnaissance of the 5,000 km route was completed recently. The race will take off from St. Isaac's Square in St. Petersburg and continue from August 1 through 11. More details...

17:20
NOVGOROD "BRAZILIANS" DEFEAT NOVGOROD "GERMANS" IN NORTH RUSSIAN WORLD CUP FINAL
Football lovers in the Novgorod region, the North-West federal district, have held their own World Cup final between Novgorod "Brazilians" and Novgorod "Germans". More details...

16:50
NATIONAL FOOTBALL SQUAD WAITING FOR VERDICT
New coach of Russia’s squad to be appointed on July 8
Today President of Russia’s Football Union Vyacheslav Koloskov made a statement that disappointed those expecting to see a foreign specialist at the post of the Russian squad coach. After bad luck of the Russian football squad at the World Cup, majority of Russian sports mass media got obsessed with an idea that a foreign coach is to be invited to the team More details...

17:01
ROBOTS TO REFEREE NEXT WOLD CUP
Everybody is indignant at refereeing at Japan-Korea World Cup
Testing of systems Hawk-Eye and BskyB designed to control referee verdicts on goals and off-sides is underway in England now. Starting with the next year BBC plans to use Hawk-Eye at Wimbledon tennis tournament for out determining. The system is based on a technology used for ballistic missile tracking More details...

17:26
POSSIBILITY OF INVITING A FOREIGNER AS CHIEF COACH OF RUSSIAN FOOTBALL TEAM DISCUSSED
President of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Vyacheslav Koloskov has held consultations with his colleagues from Italy, Spain, England and France, discussing possible candidates for the chief coach of the Russian football team. More details...

15:36
BETS ON ANNA KURNIKOVA AT WIMBLEDON TOURNAMENT ARE 1 AGAINST 125
In the wake of the Wimbeldon Tennis Tournament people make bets on the winner in the men's and women's competitions. Not many Englishmen preferred to risk money and to bet on Russian tennis player Anna Kurnikova. However, those who bet on Kurnikova were driven not by the efficiency of her game, but by personal sympathies towards the women's tennis sex symbol. More details...

13:00
MARAT SAFIN RETAINS LEAD IN CHAMPIONS' RACE OF ASSOCIATION OF TENNIS PROFESSIONALS (ATP)
In the new rating list of professional tennis players which was published on Monday Marat Safin from Russia confidently retains first place. At the moment he boasts 390 points, 50 more than runner-up Alberto Costa from Spain. American Andre Agassi is in third place with 325 points, Lleyton Hewitt from Australia comes fourth (324), and Roget Federer from Switzerland ranks fifth (323). More details...

13:58
RUSSIAN TENNIS PLAYERS REACHED SEMI-FINALS ON TOURNAMENTS IN THE NETHERLANDS AND ENGLAND
Russian tennis players Yelena Dementyeva and Anastasia Myskina have reached semi-finals of tennis tournaments in the Netherlands and England. At the tournament in Hertogenbosch /the Netherland/ Yelena Dementieva has defeated experienced tennis player from Bulgaria Magdalena Maleyeva in three sets /6:2, 0:6, 6:1/, and became one of the four players, who will fight for the main trophy. More details...

13:03
WORLD CUP: BRAZIL WINS GAME WITH ENGLAND FOR THE THIRD TIME ALREADY
David Beckham is quitting
As soon as another pair of teams for the World Cup quarter-finals outlined, we mean England and Brazil, football experts said at once that it would be nice for the rivals to meet at the final match. But the forecasts failed. A new world champion was to become clear after a game of the two teams More details...

17:45
RUSSIAN ICE HOCKEY TEAM AIMS TO SCORE ON JAPANESE ICE
Russian ice hockey players have asked for permission to play in Japan. Japanese media sources reported on Thursday that the Russian Far East team Samorodok, from the town of Kharabovsk, had applied to the professional Japanese Ice Hockey League for permission to play in the country's professional championship. More details...

15:09
RUSSIAN TENNIS PLAYERS YELENA DEMENTIEVA AND YELENA BOVINA REACHED QUARTERFINALS OF "ORDINA OPEN" TOURNAMENT
Russian tennis players Yelena Dementieva and Yelena Bovina reached the quarterfinals of Ordina Open tournament in Hertogenbosh, Holland. On Wednesday Russia's first racquet Yelena Dementieva won in a tough competition against German Bianka Lamade 6:4, 3:6, 6:1. It is worth noting that next week at the British Open Tournament - Wimbledon Tournament, the Russian tennis player will have the first game against the same German player. More details...

14:01
MOTOR RACE ST.PETERSBURG-VLADIVOSTOK FINISHED
The motor race "My Police - from Border till Border" that went across the country, from St.Petersburg in the west till Vladivostok in the east, and was devoted to the Russian Interior Ministry's 200th anniversary, finished in Vladivostok, the central city of the Primorye territory, on Thursday. It was followed by celebrations in Vladivostok's central square. More details...

11:00
2002 – THE FIRST WORLD CUP
The very first World cup, with a capital W, we could even say “Dubya”, given the excellent performance of the United States’ team, is taking place before our eyes. Football, the great leveller, the truly democratic force between nations, where rich and poor can compete on equal terms, is finally a reality. Welcome to Korea/Japan, 2002. More details...

16:28
RUSSIA'S KOREAN DANCERS TO APPEAR AT WORLD FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP'S CLOSING CEREMONY
The Korean national group of dancers Ariran from Ussuriisk, Russia's Far East, will make an appearance at the closing ceremony of the World Football Cup, reported Ussuriisk's Korean Cultural Center on Wednesday. More details...

17:37
OLEG ROMANTSEV’S RESIGNATION NOT ALLOWED YET
“I have no reasons for reproaches on the Russian squad, everyone did its best. Probably, professional level of our team is not yet sufficient enough to achieve success at the World Cup.” President of the Russian Football Union Vyacheslav Koloskov has not yet accepted resignation of chief coach of the Russian squad Oleg Romantsev More details...

15:58
KAFELNIKOV THROUGH TO SEMI-FINAL OF HALLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT, GERMANY
Russian tennis player Yevgeny Kafelnikov is through to the semi-final of the Halle tennis tournament. Kafelnikov scored a difficult victory over German player Bogdan Ulihrach with the result 5:7, 6:3, 6:4. More details...

15:27
RUSSIAN FOOTBALL UNION DOES NOT ACCEPT RESIGNATION OF THE COACHES OF THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM
The resignation of the coaches of the Russian national football team due to its poor performance at the 2002 World Cup has not been accepted. "I shall not accept any resignations right now," president of the Russian Football Union Vyacheslav Koloskov has said in an interview with RIA Novosti. More details...

11:00
WORLD CUP: LIFE GOES ON
The scenes of hysteria and tears in the capital cities of the countries knocked out in the first round, not to mention wanton vandalism, walk hand in hand with the new media interest in “human reality” shots, such as the reaction of groups of fans in bars, or shots of a pretty girl sobbing on the terraces. More details...

18:36
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE ATTACHES SPECIAL IMPORTANCE TO INTERNATIONAL YOUTH GAMES IN MOSCOW
The representatives of the International Olympic Committee attach special importance to the International Youth Games in Moscow, said mayor Yuri Luzhkov. More details...